The Silent War (2012) Movie Script

1 Miss, your telegram Hong Kong 1949 San Francisco meeting ended. Shipper violated contract Return with cargo ASAP Intelligence from Devil 701 has intercepted an American ciphered message They wanted Guo Xing-zhong to sell out Sparrow Didn't Guo promised... to send Sparrow to Peking tomorrow? Sparrow is in missile engineering The American government drove him back to Hong Kong Now they regret as he's returning to China So they want to bring him back to the States? They want him to disappear Hong Kong is a British colony. The Brits don't care? Americans are in charge of London now. The Brits can only follow So does Guo Xing-zhong All here? You are here too? Professor Xue-ning Take a seat... take a seat Tomorrow you are leaving me Tonight you may not stay away from me for a second The great authoress wants to give Professor a parting souvenir How lucky! Professor must have done good in former live Oh, woe are our young heirs of the 13 Trading Companies she fancies none of them And not to mention us Master Guo deserves the most pity, doesn't he? After wooing her for so long, he's become a matchmaker for Professor Xing-zhong throws this party to bid Professor farewell Shouldn't we... ask Professor to join us? Here... Yes, Professor... He doesn't drink. I will do it Xue-ning, Xing-zhong and I... are classmates, good friends I must thank him for introducing all of you to me I am leaving tomorrow, let me toast you Good... I will drink first. Bottoms up You are all Xing-zhong's friends You have to drink up all his wine tonight otherwise you don't show due respect for him OK... OK OK... one more For that one more, I have to drink it with Master Guo I am with Devil, follow me Miss Xue-ning, I haven't seen you for some days. Where were you? Shouldn't you... drink as a penalty? The brothers of 13 Trading Companies are jealous of you who should drink? I Will drink it up Leave the jealousy with them. We will go drink Why is Miss Xue-ning in such a poetic mood today bestowing this big favour on me? Now my 5-year courtship is not in vain Chang... fetch Miss Xue-ning's gift over here No need Helping me send Professor to Peking is the best gift That's beyond my power If you do that... I will be yours What did you say? I mean it No It doesn't matter Go Mountain area in Southern China Devil is waiting for you Director, 200 is reporting Come and take a seat 5 years ago, I had met Devil Are you the stand-in? Or was he the stand-in? He left the country a year ago Since then I have been the Director of 701 Bureau Devil The identity of Guo Xing-zhong isn't faked, right? It's real, I am the son of the shipping tycoon The Guo family's fleet has always been our underground channel Your father also belongs to the Bureau? You don't need to know Take your seat, 200 Has your knife wound healed? Nothing serious, Chang's stroke was deft and neat If he was messy... I would really have died Understand? Yes If so, let's talk about work A month ago, the Intercept Unit had a problem For years 701 has been monitoring the enemy's some 100 military channels We have their every move well in hand However, at zero hour on 8 October these channels ...suddenly disappeared at the same time After a good 30 hours on the morning of 10 October these channels reappeared Monitor no. 18 detects something 93 as well... But we no longer hear secret intelligence just the enemy's routine announcements and weather reports Did they change the cipher code? Decipher Unit has read all the messages the codes have not been changed That means there is only one possibility They changed the radio frequencies We spent a whole month and could merely find 9 channels Just last week 3 of our overseas intelligence points were destroyed causing many casualties While Chiang is making a new move with the addition of this episode would you regard it... as a mere coincidence? Definitely not! So now I need... a brilliant interceptor to retrieve these channels This man, Luo San-er, is in Shanghai He is a piano tuner He can tell which piano is flawed from 100 meters away I will go bring him back Yes Director, goodbye Higher... Even higher... Higher... I have worked here for 5 years In the past, the piano was tuned... once every half-a-year After Mr. Luo came, it became once every month I heard that he also tuned for Madam Sun so no one said anything I can tell you... Madam says she likes music Actually... she just likes to listen to Mr. Luo tuning the piano In tune with her? Relax, I won't tell anyone Good Who is that man? Bing, Mr. Luo's lackey He's blind Brother San! Run! You toy boy, how dare you touch my wife! Run, run Waste him, kill him Run Hurry up, don't let them escape Hurry, chase... chase... Grab him Go That way, run Here, up the stairs... quick Here, come on Quick, go down Brother San, watch out Chop him to death And him too! Stop Where can you go? You have no escape Stop Thank you You are welcome What is your name? Didn't that woman in the theatre tell you? You saw it? You pretender You are the pretender I haven't seen a woman so adept in fighting and on high heels too Sis, which gang do you belong to? I am looking for Luo San-er Oh... another of Brother San's women Looks like you are really blind I am blind So what? Have eyes but see not I have to go. Where is the door? On your left Turn right Sorry... What exactly do you want? We are from the military We know that people like you would meet at a place after dispersal Where is your meeting place with Luo San-er We don't have one Fatso take him away We've arranged to meet tomorrow morning Where? Can I tell you tomorrow morning? Why can't you tell me now? Will I survive if I tell you now? I will tell you tomorrow morning Are you afraid I will flee? OK Pinwheel... drop by and buy a pinwheel Authentic Lanzhou noodle Popcorn... popcorn Watch out... Watch out... Can't you just leave me alone? Did you come here by tracing the sound? Alas! Why do you bring me back here? Aren't you looking for Brother San? We agreed that we'd meet at Zhu Jia Jiao He'll be gone if I don't get there soon I heard that when you were 13, on a tree... you and your elder brother watched the Japanese soldiers enter your village They discovered and shot you with guns You both fell from the tree, your brother died and you fainted The Japanese thought your were dead, they didn't shoot again When your mother found you, a night had passed Since then your eyes couldn't see anything but your ears became more and more sensitive At 16, even a mosquito flying by... would give you the jitters Luo San-er was your townsman, he discovered your talent and took you to Shanghai to make a living Is this your story? Who told you that? You blind idiot, how dare you come here? I'll beat you up, I... you stay right here! I...I'll beat you up... I told you to earn money, and you got people killed If it were not these leaders who bore with you you blind idiot would have been dead long ago Don't you hear me clearly? No No? He... OK, let me tell you clearly... tell you clearly Son... you can't avert this misfortune Do you hear me clearly now? Clear now? Clear this time From now on we will listen to you We will always listen to you No problem, my son's ears are super sensitive Chief our country is developing, it needs loads of manpower You don't need to drag in so many people to care for my mom Though she looks old she... is very nimble, and has an agile mind She can take care of herself I know she is nimble and agile, I fear she would escape With me in your hands, how can she escape? With she in my hands, you will not escape It is my honor to serve the country why would I escape? Alright, I'll accept fate You all want to take advantage of my ears But you have to tell me what you want me to do Just think as if you are going to tune a very big piano Do you know how much I charge for tuning an ordinary piano? I will double the pay How about my mom? We have arranged quarters for your mom, on the Bund The Bund is good, beautiful scenery But grocery shopping... is a bit inconvenient If she could have a small sedan, that would... Understood Let's sign a contract Why are you staring at me? Who stares at you? I am blind Close your eyes I can't see anyway what difference does it make? Close your eyes Oh... What do you see when you close your eyes? What did you say? Nothing, I was just asking Did you hear something just now? When you slept, you didn't snore, you didn't talk your heartbeat was slow, so was your breathing but your hands and feet were strained as if someone were to touch you, you'd kill him at once Then why did you ask me what I'd see with my eyes closed? Let me open my eyes, then I'll tell you OK When I close my eyes I'd think of unhappy past events Then you should sleep with your eyes wide open How is it possible? I'd try to think of good things Such as? The good things I remember all happened before I became blind Things happened in my childhood were all good things What if there are sad parts in the good things? Just remembering the good parts will do Is it that simple? It is that simple What are you smiling at? I am thinking of the day you fell from the tree Your must remember... the part where your peeped at Chun Jiao's bath, right? Did my mom tell you that? Blindfold him No need, he cannot see So many sentries... Are we arriving soon? Didn't you say he couldn't see? Relax, he just hears it And there are many cars 200, what is it? Why isn't he blindfolded? He cannot see Don't talk nonsense OK Aren't you supposed to fetch the tuner Luo? Why is this man here? Sir You dropped your cigarette Director Thanks The examination will start right away How long do we have to wait here? What do you want? I am hungry Where is the exit? What are you doing? They are calling Let's go If you hear this broadcast, leave from the right exit If you hear this broadcast, leave from the right exit It was an ultra-low frequency recording we ordinary people cannot hear that frequency I have studied his file, he is illiterate Yes You can help him in the next test OK Are you hungry? You didn't say there'd be a test Are you scared? Yeah... I am afraid to scare you Ladies and gentlemen, please put on your earphones I don't need to, just put it there Let's start Question no. 1 In the recording just now... what did the woman next to the bus say? Damn it What did you say? The answer Damn it The answer... how can it be damn it Bing... Do you know what 701 is? We are an invisible unit You will fight an invisible enemy on an invisible battlefield What? Isn't my mission... very dangerous? What do you want to say? Nothing Director This leader told me that I came here for tuning piano Now you ask me to fight a battle, then. The charge would be very different What do you think is an appropriate price? Our agreed price times 5 Reasonable And it's impossible for my mom to live in quarters Living in a house is more comfortable for an elder Plus a small sedan Imported sedan Deal Director... softer please I hope you can mend your ways Mend what? Who has never made a mistake? Don't be so fussy Director... I am now sacrificing my life for the country that would compensate, right? You aren't in a position to bargain with me As long as you do your work well, no one can touch you If you don't, we will work according to law Are you threatening me, sir? I just want you to feel at ease If you feel at ease, you can work well If you work well, the price I offer you is reasonable You have to learn radio and Morse Code in one week You don't have much time, don't dillydally Your Director is not amenable to reason To people like you, he's already very kind I am out of luck Start working It's all right to put it on the table Retrieve that particular one This one on the far right is the volume When you hear sounds Put down... what you have heard Switch, frequency, fine tune... volume, hear sounds I've heard that you and Bing haven't rested for days You look terrible What's the use of having good looks here? It's no use damaging your health here Take a rest, this is an order! Of course I have to obey your order but I also have to complete my last mission Put this on monitor no. 7 No. 11...more towards the left No... my left Is that OK? Yes Like this Right What are they doing? Bing begins to locate the channels He wants to start with the whole airwaves This is the sound of the airwaves? Just 5 days... has he learned all the things he needs? Radio is sound, Bing doesn't need to learn that He is illiterate Morse Code is the first written language he learns I found it! I found it! It's telegraphic code! I have been monitoring this frequency for 2 weeks but to no avail I found it! I found it! It's real! Are you awake? The doctor said your blood sugar is low and need to drink more glucose You had a high fever yesterday, scared me to death Come, take this medicine! Good girl Drinking glucose isn't enough I'll cook you chicken angelica soup tomorrow I'll add wolf berries and red dates What are you doing here? Don't move This medicine is very effective Why is your hand so cold? What did you say? I said what are you doing here Shouldn't you be at the Intercept Unit? Yes, I should go back Director, you are late again The director talks to the doctor first everyday He is not sick, why talk to the doctor? A waste of time I am leaving She's taken the medicine. Congee and food are on the cabinet Ask the nurse to heat them up before she eats Remember, the congee shouldn't be too hot Cool it down a bit before drinking! I'll go now Oh... take the medicine with lukewarm water No problem Hungry? What is he up to? In the past 2 days Bing has found over 70 channels After the Decipher Unit deciphered the code we discovered... Chiang's spies are gathering in several big cities The Action Unit people took off yesterday Chang has spotted a few of them in Shanghai They are disguised as patriotic merchants The one taking the lead is Zhang Guo-xiang They have just formed the New Chamber of Commerce Bing has become the hero of 701 but, after all, he is not one of us He is well disposed towards you. You have to see him more What are you talking about? After you fainted, he carried you to the hospital nobody could touch you You have been hospitalized for 2 days he visited you every 2 hours didn't sleep a wink Only one channel is left Quiet all the 120 channels are found You are in the mood for cooking? Come. You've been cooking everyday, must be tired Come try my cooking today I have bought you a woolen vest try it on Oh my! You shouldn't have bought me gifts How can I accept it? Give it to me The colour of this vest suits you well Don't you think so, Li-jun? Nowadays, not many men can cook Look at this dish... so delicately done Have a piece of meat Tastes good? The puppy was just killed today. A newborn. Isn't it tender? Bing likes joking Nowadays not many men like to joke, right? Oh... did you tell the lady about all my problems? Otherwise it would be embarrassing Last time Mei-fen... was so scared that she was hospitalized for a week Come on, let's have a drink Bing, join us I can't drink, I can't drink Let us drink then All right, bottoms up Didn't you say you could not drink? Who said that? Bottoms up Bottoms up Sorry, he... He is fine. It's my problem Goodbye Don't like her? Then I'll invite Yue-hua of Archive Unit to come tomorrow No need The Director fears you'd be bored, he wants me to find you... Is it the Director's idea? Thank him for me Tell him I am grateful for his goodwill You are the best investigator here Having you take care of a blind man is a task that is beneath you I will talk to the Director tomorrow You don't have to take care of me anymore Are you looking for something? No just taking a walk Jackpot! 3 ones, 4 twos and 1 six Can you really hear it? To be frank, in Shanghai... all the casinos, large and small, bar me out Come again You can hear it all. What's the fun of playing? Winning is always better than losing Then 701 is really the place for you People here like to win Where have you been today? Haven't seen you for the whole day I was learning Learning what? If there's nothing, I'll go home You are wearing new clothes? Doesn't it look good? Yes looks very good Are you gambling on life? I am gambling on other people's lives If I decipher a code wrongly more than one life will be lost Tossing the dice to decipher you are gambling more fiercely than me I have been quite lucky so far Really? Want to play again? OK Then... I'll go Oh Goodbye Come out Learning codes from Decipher Unit's people how accurate You aren't tired after following me for one day? No, now I can rest assured That's nice Who? Chang and his men were ambushed That night... they followed the New Chamber of Commerce people and found a spot but when they arrived the people had left This spot... had never appeared in the messages before I found this there We have never intercepted this message I suspect that the enemy still has several advanced channels... for communicating top secrets yet Bing had never detected them Director which is the quietest place in 701? This is the acoustic laboratory zero echo The small sound box you ask for is also ready No sound at all I can't hear the path Can you take me there? I'm fine doing it alone Sure Bing... Bing... are you OK? OK No sound at all? What is he listening to? It's already been 3 hours Hear it? This person hides in the most crowded place, tapping very lightly as if he's afraid of breaking the radio transmitter No he's afraid of breaking his nails It's a woman One long sound, one short sound, very even rhythm This one is different A chain smoker Sending messages holding a cigarette Often makes mistakes Whenever he corrects his mistake, he taps heavier A very short-tempered man Another mistake The third one uses her left hand to send message But she isn't a leftie a bit clumsy She does it intentionally and she likes adding 1 or 2 wrong codes in the message The fourth one's codes are intermittent Sometimes heavy, sometimes light as if he's standing on an unstable place He's sending message from a ship This elderly gentleman is different All of his taps are heavy, stable... and accurate this is a veteran But he's a bit old He has the least strength The messages intercepted by Bing are all encrypted advanced codes It's exclusively used by... the enemy's spy head Chungking I suspect that he's in Shanghai right now Look at the files in your hands There are 53 target persons in them Chungking is definitely one of them Are you Shen Jing? I am I've heard that your parents are also in coding After the war, your father had another woman Your mother left him and took you to Yan An When the Kuomintang retreated, your mother died Your father followed the Chiang family to Taiwan With such a father do you feel bad working here? I feel perfectly fine here You know Bing is a very important person, right? And your father is the Director of Kuomintang Decipher Unit So what you want to say is... I befriend Bing... because I want to whitewash my background? Or are you worried that... I'll have bad influence on him? Miss Zhang Do you know how many codes I've deciphered for 701? And many of them are coded by my father It's not accidental that I can stay here Here Bing is my only friend Do you think I would hurt him? That's good. I'll go now So the investigation is over? This is not an investigation I just care about my friend That simple? What do you mean? I don't mean anything I am thinking too much You are up? I am leaving Where to? Shanghai When will you come back? I don't know From now on Shen Jing will take care of you Zhang Xue-ning Come back safely Deal Xue-ning has left 701 for half a year No message from her I understand that... when she works she can't contact me I marry Shen Jing today I asked the Director... to let Zhang Xue-ning return for the wedding but she hasn't shown up till the wedding ends You're holding another woman even before warming up your wedding bed what kind of husband are you? I must entertain the good friend... who comes to banter the newlywed Good friend, I am late today... because I was preparing a big gift for you Hear it? Dr. Tan is an ophthalmologist back from the States I talked to him about your eyes He thinks they may be curable Very simple. Change the cornea Won't that be dangerous? Very complicated May have a certain degree of danger I can't see anyway I won't lose if I bet on this Let me try I don't want you to marry a blind man In the past few months we have dealt with the enemy spies hidden in several cities But we have never found Chungking 2 days ago Bing intercepted a message The encrypted codes in the message was exclusive to Chungking I think he'll take up the matter himself this time Good This book contains the name list of 701 members all over the world Burn it after reading From today onwards, you are Devil What? Thank you, Director This is the superior's idea, no need to thank me How about you? I have another mission Do I need to know? You are Devil, of course you need to know 2 months from now, I will go to Hong Kong to approach the daughter of Jardine's taipan Oh I wish you a successful mission Thank you Goodbye I am your upline now If I ask you to terminate your mission, will you do it? You will not Goodbye You haven't used your eyes for years Take your time, no hurry I can finally see you Do I look like what you imagined? You are much prettier than I imagined How about me? Much better than Chun Jiao Who is Chun Jiao? Chun Jiao? That you have to ask your hubby I gotta go. That's why I come to say goodbye Leaving again? When will you come back? When you invite me to your baby's 1-month party Thank you, Dr. Tan You are welcome Xue-ning Thank you Come back safely Let's go I think Chungking will take action soon OK Let's go Found them Everything's ready? Ready In the message He Bing intercepted Chungking will come tonight He wants to personally verify your identity Oh, you have eventually come Come... I'll do the introduction This is Mr. Cao of the Transport Union This is Captain Yang of the Marine Union Oh... and... this is Mrs. Li, the wife of Shanghai Railway Co.'s manager How do you do? Nice meeting you This is Comrade Ye Ling, Shanghai Customs Director's adopted daughter Comrade Ye, you work so late, what a blessing to our country It's nothing Liu, the tea is cold, make a new pot Let us start Sure, let's start Comrade Ye, this seat is good, good fung shui, you sit here OK You take your old seat I sat here last time Well, fung shui may change perhaps this time I am in luck 8 characters 2 bamboos Oops... Comrade Ye... has a winning hand Pure one-suit hand and single wait Fork out your money Comrade Ye won 4 games in a row How lucky Amazing You just let me win No way, I am watching at the back I know Comrade Ye is a master-player Yeah... They are the real master-players Look at this This is the class superiority Comrade Ye is a proletarian How can such a little trick... of us capitalist... have cheated her, right? What proletarian and capitalist? We are all making a living, aren't we? Yes, making a living Where should we make our living then? With the shortage of commodities now, imported goods are most popular My husband just found a batch of foreign goods in the States If they can come to Shanghai we'll make a fortune 8 bamboos Nowadays, it's not easy to import American goods into Shanghai We ship captains know... we should talk to Comrade Ye about import For these few years, the Shanghai Customs is her adoptive father's world You mean my Godfather abuses power for personal gain? However, foreign goods can boost the economy it's also a sort of contribution to our country My Godfather never objects to our doing business If I can also have a share... Look... There are 5 people here let's split it into 5 shares 6 shares Doesn't my Godfather get a share? If Mr. Ye can come, he's most welcome Wait Sorry I win again You don't mind? Of course not No, no, how brilliant Come, take out your money I don't mind I have no luck today Smiling so sweetly. Got a winning hand? I have lost 4 games, haven't won any Lost? Who won then? Mr. Li? Oh, he's my dance teacher, Cheng Gang Let me introduce. Comrade Ye Comrade Ye Mr. Cheng. How do you do? Take a seat OK Let's win it back I should win it this time The instrument of ratification you wanted This is a message on Chungking intercepted by Bing yesterday It's about your rendezvous with him Are you still not sure who Chungking is? No, there is yet one more person Do you remember Luo San-er? Now he's changed his name to Cheng Gang If Chungking were there yesterday he was also a suspect If so... let's catch them all Not now Mr. Li has not appeared yet If we catch them all Chungking would be alarmed What is it? Nothing. Have Bing pay more attention to the codes these 2 days Understood Am I making too much noise? You can't sleep? I am thinking Hey tell me what this is Hour Like in one hour, two hours And this? Black They are very similar Before deciphering... jade is... very similar to king But after deciphering their meanings are totally different I have to go back to the Bureau You haven't slept for 2 days It's OK. I have to go back 1 character Fortune Your goods will arrive in these 2 days My Godfather has things arranged. You can rest assured With this instrument of ratification, we can all rest assured Then... in 2 days, I'll have the phase one bonus... delivered to Comrade Ye's residence. How's that? Business matters should all be handled here Good. In 2 days... we meet here again 5 circles Wait it's not easy to gain from you. My turn now 8 circles Thank you. I win What? Again? My goodness Comrade Ye, you are really lucky I have lost to her... all the money I made from this deal Come on, you are so rich Losing a bit is nothing Come, collect the money You'll get used to losing Right What round are we in now? Mrs. Li? Oh, West Are we still in West? Liu I've only won twice in 3 rounds Give me another cup of hot tea I've only won once How unlucky I haven't even won 3 losing to 1 I will win pure one-suit hand next time Win off him You can How long has he been here? 2 days He hasn't gone out in 2 days He said the enemy channels are transmitting all the time he has to monitor The volume has been turned up a lot Yes, it's been like that for the last 2 days Bing just intercepted a message Chungking's identity exposed. Act asap That means one of them is definitely Chungking I have people watching them None has fled Tonight should be the time to draw in the net Comrade Ye, how are you Didn't we say we'd meet at the union? It's not convenient to speak here. Come, let's go in Come Mr. Cao is being followed We are afraid of implicating you so we've brought the money here This is what you mean by afraid of dragging me in? We are all in it what dragging are you talking about Yang, shut up We all do it for the money, don't we Comrade Ye, come here, count the money Count the money Aren't you looking for Chungking? I am Chungking I am also Chungking You haven't imagined that... the 5 of us are all Chungking, right? He recognized you. We have revenged for you How long have I been sleeping? 2 days I'll get you some water No need Come here You haven't slept for 2 days as well? It's OK. I couldn't sleep Tell me, what is this? Chungking And this? Devil These 2 codes are very similar Yes... very similar We used to say... this was a joke made by the enemy... when they designed the code Making the names of the 2 opposing heads... almost identical What happened? You have mistaken Devil as Chungking Come back safely How can it be... How can it be... I come back to cook for you You don't have to go back? No I will accompany you Bing... I found him, I found him. He's here Come here Director... Director... Director... Sorry to trouble you. I found 2 channels OK You are gambling with your own life I want a glass of water My ears are wasted Does it do any good being able to see? Anyway, I don't need capital to gamble this time Sorry I am the one who should say sorry I won't make a mistake again I have already found the 120 channels Only 5 advanced channels are left You haven't rested for one whole day Take a rest first, then work again I am OK If things happen to you who would help me find Chungking? Here Director Thanks for your hard work What time is the action? Tomorrow I'll ask them to send you home in a while OK I can't be of any help here What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for Then I won't be in your way I have found a channel a clean one Enjoy Goodbye Goodbye Comrades of the industrial and commercial sectors let's put our hands together to welcome... the leaders of the People's Liberation Army Comrades... friends from different sectors, please allow me to, on behalf of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, thank you for your support of the frontline troops In the past, we did not have an air force we just relied on compact MK rifles to overthrow Chiang's dynasty Today, as time advances political situations change continuously in order to resist the invasion of imperialism we must have our own air force Otherwise we will always be passive Air force is our future With an air force, the People's Army will be stronger and can better protect the new China Ladies and gentlemen, what you do today... is contributing to the future of our motherland Comrades the new China has just been founded Imperialism has never cast away the illusion of conquering us It vainly hopes to stifle the new China in its cradle For the peace of the world for the dignity of our sacred motherland our young air force must carry on our military successes... of overcoming the strong with the weak during the people's liberation battle The air force will demonstrate their courage and power The ultimate victory... will surely belong to... the people who love world peace Let me go... let me go Let me go Her tombstone is so simple All the tombstones of 701 are like this The people here, from birth to death, are kept secret Simple is good Just like here...